- August 24, 2021Records, tax and financial, are often among the property damaged or destroyed in a natural disaster. If you're lucky, you…
- August 23, 2021The devastating Haitian earthquake. Deadly flooding in Tennessee and North Carolina. Tropical Storm Henri damage in the Northeast. Drought-fueled destructive…
- August 22, 2021When is a tax whistleblower not a whistleblower, at least as far as getting rewarded for certain information? When the…
- August 21, 2021Capitol photo by Scrumshus via Citypeek-Wikipedia As Capitol Hill creeps toward further consideration of the Biden Administration's $3.5 trillion spending…
- August 20, 2021FTC Chair Lina Khan was one of the officials appearing at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in June…
- August 19, 2021Image by Hucklebarry from Pixabay When the hubby and I started out our life together, we were young and poor.…
- August 18, 2021Even before the COVID-19 pandemic created a plethora of economic problems, student debt was a national concern. Student loans are…
- August 17, 2021You'd think after almost 18 months of dealing with COVID-19, we'd all be wise to related scams. Apparently, we aren't.…
- August 16, 2021The Child Tax Credit, particularly the advance payments now being distributed by the Internal Revenue Service in monthly installments through…
- August 15, 2021The parents of these youngsters are as happy as their offspring, thanks to the Advance Child Tax Credit payments. But…
- August 14, 2021Photo by Juan Pablo Serrano Arenas from Pexels On Friday, the second of this year's Advance Child Tax Credit payments were…
- August 13, 2021COVID-19 just won't let go. A tropical system is heading for the Gulf of Mexico. And it's Friday the 13th.…
- August 12, 2021The Senate finally cranked the engine on the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, but it's still got a ways to go before…
- August 11, 2021Hurricane season 2021 is back. Tropical Storm Fred is heading toward the eastern Gulf of Mexico, with much of Florida…
- August 10, 2021It's fitting that I just learned today, late in the day, that Aug. 10 is National Lazy Day. I definitely…
- August 9, 2021Photo by FRANK MERIÑO from Pexels With the Delta variant fueling a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, focus has fallen on…
- August 8, 2021Tax reporting changes of virtual currency transactions remain a part of the infrastructure bill, now on the bumpy legislative road…
- August 7, 2021If you don't follow international taxes, you probably missed the CumEx story. The team of investigative reporters who uncovered the…
- August 6, 2021The Capitol Hill debate over how cryptocurrency taxes fit into the funding of the infrastructure bill continues. Most Americans, however,…
- August 5, 2021Individuals and private businesses weren't the only ones to take economic hits during the persistent pandemic. As people started isolating,…
- August 4, 2021One thing missing from how to pay for the $1 trillion infrastructure bill finally being debated on Capitol Hill is…
- August 3, 2021UPDATE, Aug. 9, 2021: A last-minute push to limit new cryptocurrency tax reporting requirements in the $1 trillion infrastructure package…
- August 1, 2021IRS image Last fall, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it was adding QR, or Quick Response, codes to…
- July 31, 2021Thoreau's Cove, circa 1908, on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. (Photo from the U.S. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons)…
- July 30, 2021No, that money from the Internal Revenue Service that just showed up in your bank account or snail mail box…
- July 29, 2021You got your first Advance Child Tax Credit (AdvCTC) this month. The added $300 for each of your kiddos age…
- July 27, 2021Attention shoppers in Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Your states are holding back-to-school sales tax holidays this final weekend…
- July 26, 2021Millions of filers are still working on 2020 tax returns, some due to extensions, others filing for the first time…
- July 25, 2021Just about a month ago, the Internal Revenue Service reportedly had a backlog of more than 35 million individual and…
- July 24, 2021The University of Alabama soon might have some new competitors in the SEC. (Pixabay via Pexels) Sure, the COVID-delayed 2020…
- July 23, 2021It's no surprise that, after facing a ginormous backlog of paper tax forms that piled up when the Internal Revenue…
- July 22, 2021The newly built Japan National Stadium in Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies on July 23, 2021,…
- July 21, 2021Everybody needs some help now and then. On Friday, July 23, and Saturday, July 24, the Internal Revenue Service is…
- July 20, 2021Millions of parents are as happy as these youngsters, thanks to the first Advance Child Tax Credit payment that arrived…
- July 19, 2021TurboTax won't be a Free File option when the 2022 tax filing season arrives. Taxpayers who used TurboTax to complete…
- July 18, 2021The Internal Revenue Service and those who want Uncle Sam to go after tax evaders were elated when a bipartisan…
- July 17, 2021View from the Astros' dugout in Minute Maid Park. (Photo by Kay Bell) The National Basketball Association's (NBA) championship series…
- July 16, 2021Don't fall for scammers who falsely say they can help you get, or get more, of the enhanced Child Tax…
- July 15, 2021UPDATED, Aug. 14, 2021: This post was published originally on July 15 in advance of the 2021 back-to-school state sales…
- July 14, 2021These youngsters' parents will join them in jumping for joy if the expanded Child Tax Credit, which was expanded for…